Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 51 flew its 110,000th consecutive flight hour without a Class A mishap on Monday.

The unit from Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan, is the third of 14 HSL or HSM squadrons worldwide to currently hold that distinction.

The Navy defines a Class A mishap as one that results in at least $1 million worth of damage, or injury leading to death or permanent total disability.

Three such incidents have occurred in the Navy so far this fiscal year, according to officials. Since its establishment in October 1991, HSL-51 has not had a Class A mishap, Navy officials said.

The squadron flies 13 SH-60s and 2 SH-60Fs. About 350 squadron personnel operate at any given time, including maintainers, pilots and air crew.

Cummings announces poetry contest winnersMISAWA AIR BASE, Japan — Cummings Elementary School officials announced the winners of a Poetry Aloud contest held Thursday.

Winners are: Jared Batts, fifth grade; Devin Brooks, sixth grade; Hannah Thomascall, fifth grade; Daniel Lovett, sixth grade; Jill Germain, sixth grade; and Marcus Armstrong, fifth grade.

The students were given a list of 50 poems and were tasked with choosing one to present in a competition.

Navy program sponsors poster design contestThe Navy’s Behavioral Health Program is sponsoring a design contest for the Navy’s new suicide prevention poster. The contest will run June 15 to July 31 and is open to individual sailors or teams of sailors. A panel of judges will select the top posters, and sailors will be able to vote online to determine the winner. For more information, visit www.suicide.navy.mil.